Dispensing-receptacle.



C. L. WEIL.

DISPENSING RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION HLED MAR. 26. 1915.

1 ,279,622. Patented Sept. 24, 1918.

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C. L. WEIL.

DISPENSING RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26. 1915.

Patented Sept. 24, 1918'.-

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A TTOR/VE Y I Clair, in the county CHARLES L. WEIL, OF ST. CLAIR, MICHIGAN.

DISPENSING-BECEPTACLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 26, 1915. Serial No. 17,140.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. WEIL, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. of St. Clair and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dispensing- Re ceptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to dispensing receptacles, and particularly to pouring spouts therefor. The present invention is an improvement on the device described in my co-pending application, Serial No. 857,173,

filed August 17th, 1914. It has for an object the providing of improved hinging means betweenthe surface of a receptacle and. a removable spout.

WVhen a pouring spout is to be used in connection with packages of salt or similar material, it is important that the spout should be removably attached to the receptacle. The reason for this is that "such receptacles are commonly completely made, paraffined and labeled before being filled. They are then filled through the dispensing opening. The final act in the preparation of the article is the attachment of the spout. My present invention provides a spout which may be easily and quickly attached to the receptacle in completed form and which may be swung from shipping to dispensing position and held firmly in each position.

One embodiment of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank from which the spout is made;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the aperture in the box and the spout about to be inserted therein;

Fig.- 3 is a bottom view showing the spout in ralsed position;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view illustratin the way in which the spout is placed in posltion in the opening of the box;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view showing the spout in lowered or shipping position;

Fig. 6 is a sectional view showing the spout in intermediate position;

Fig. 7 is a sectional view showing the spout in raised or dispensing position.

The dispensing receptacle consists of a box or carton of cardboardor other suitable material having a flat surface 1 with which the spoutis associated. This surface is preferably the top of the receptacle. It

contains an aperture 2 from which extend two slots 3, 3, having between them a tongue 4 of the material of the box. The spout is preferably constructed from a single piece of material. A blank 5 is stamped in the shape shownin Fig. 1. The blank is folded to form a chute-shaped spout having a back 6, two sides 7, 7 extending below the bottom of the back, and a front portion which is preferably made of two flaps of the material S and 9. The sides are provided with slots or notches 10, in their rear edges at the bottom of the back, said notches being Patented Sept. 24, 1918.

formed in the blank by the removal of a rectangular piece of the material with two outwardly projecting tabs at its upper corof the outerflap 9 of the front is provided with an outwardly projecting tab 13, which is preferably substantially the same width as the spout.

The shape of the sides is such that the distance a between the top of the notch 10 and the upper corner of the side is equal to the distance a between the inner end of the notch 10 and the lower front corner of the spout, and greater than the distance 12 between the lower rear corner of the side and the front upper surface of the spout. The distance a between theinner end of the slot 3 and the opposite edge of the aperture 2 is made equal to the distance a and the distance a (see Fig. 2).

The spout is preferably provided with a valve member which may consist of a single strip of material bent into the form shown in the sectional views. When so bent,

it comprises three portions, the closure 14:,

ing hole 17. The valve member is pivoted to the inwardly bent tabs 18 upon the sides and the inwardly bent tab 19 upon the inner front flap 8.

The method of attaching the spoutto the box is as follows The outwardly projecting flap 13 of the front is inserted under the righthand edge of the aperture in the box (Fig. 2). The

spout is then pressed down into the aperture until it occupies the-position shown in Fig.

4:. As the distance 6 is no greater than the distance a, which substantially equals the length of the discharge orifice the lower rear,

corners of the sides pass through the slots 3, into the box without catching, as shown in Fig. 4. The back 6, of thespout is then pressed downward until the spout occupies the position shown in Fig.- 5. In this posi-.

tion the lower portion ofthe back rests upon the tongue 4. The lower portion 11 of the rear edges of the sides engages the lower side of the top 1 of the box. The rear por' tion of the spout is thus'held against either upward or downward motion. When in this position the back 6 of the spout forms a closure for the aperture 2, and the package the back 6 and pulling upward. The spout" swings upward pivoted upon its rear portion passing through the intermediate position shown in Fig. 6, and arriving at the raised position shown in Fig. 7 When in this position the rear portion ofthe spoutis held against outward movement by the engagement of the notches 10 withthe inner edges of the slots 3 and against inward movement by the engagement of these notches as well as the engagement of the lower edge of the back with the top of the box. The forward edge of the spout is held against outward motion by the tab 13, while the projections 12 prevent the forward end from being 7 forced-inward accidentally. If for any rea -5 son it is desired to place the-spout again in shipping position, this. may be done by simplypressing the upper end of the back forward and inward.

What I claim is 1. A box havingin one surface'thereof a dispensing opening with two slots extending therefrom, and a spout having sides extending below its back and having notches nav aeae in their rear edges engageable with the ends of said slots While the lower edge of the back rests upon the surface of the box, whereby.

said spout may be moved pivotally in relation to the surface of the box.

2. A spout for dispensing receptacles having two spaced sides having. notches in the lower part of their rear edges and being of such shape that the distance from the inner end of said notches to the lower front corner of the spout is equal to the distance from the upper side of said notches to the back upper corner of said sides and at least as great as the least distance from the lower back corner of the sides to the upper front edge of the sides. a

3. A spout for dispensing receptacles hav ing a backand two sides extending below said back with notches in the rear edges of said sides below the bottom edge of the back.

4. A spout for dispensing receptacles having. a .back and two sides extending below said back, with notches in the rear edges of said sides'below the bottom edge of theback,

the portion 'of said sides below said notches extending less far back than the portion above the notches.

5. A blank for a spout for a dispensing receptacle, comprising a substantially rectangular back portion and integral side portions on each side of the back portion, a rectangular piece of the material with two outwardly projecting tabs at its upper corners being/cut away below the bottom of the back portion, whereby notches in the side portions are provided for pivotally connecting the spout with the receptacle. 6. In combination with a box having a dispensing opening in one'surface thereof, a spout pivotally connected with said box and having notches engageable with an edge of said opening in one position of said spout, and a valve member pivoted within said spout.

7 The combination with a box, of a dispensing opening in one surface thereof, of a spout pivotally connected with said box and adaptedin one position to close said opening, and a valve member pivoted within said spout having an apertured extension obstructing the inlet of the spout.

8. The combination with a receptacle having a dispensing opening, of a spout pivotally mounted upon said receptacle and adapted in one position to ,close said opening, a valve pivotally adjustable within said spout, and lugs upon the spout establishing pivotal engagement of the valve therewith,

two of which lugs project from opposite walls of the spout and a third lug projects transversely of said opposite lugs.

9. The combination with a receptacle havinga dispensing opening, of a spout pivotally connected with said receptacle and adapted to close said opening in one posioperatinglug projecting from the spout subtion, and a valve mounted in said spout havstantially at right angles to said lugs and in ing an apertured extension at one extremity, registration with the aperture of the exinclined to the body of said valve, a pair of tension.

5 lugs projecting from opposite walls of the In testimony whereof, I have hereunto spout and engaging one side of said extensigned my name. sion adjacent the body of the valve, and a (10- CHARLES L. WEIL. 

